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Looking closer : critical writings on graphic design /

Contributor(s): Copyright date: ©1994Description: xvi, 245 pages ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 1880559153
  • 9781880559154
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NC997 .L633 1994
Contents:
Introduction / Steven Heller -- A Natural History of Typography / J. Abbott Miller and Ellen Lupton -- Good History/Bad History / Tibor Kalman, J. Abbott Miller and Karrie Jacobs -- The Time Machine / Steven Heller -- Morality and Myth: The Bauhaus Reassessed / Dietmar R. Winlker -- Some Thoughts on Modernism, Past, Present, and Future / Milton Glaser, Ivan Chermayeff and Rudolf deHarak -- Rethinking Modernism, Revising Functionalism / Katherine McCoy -- Long Live Modernism! / Massimo Vignelli -- Life, Style, and Advocacy / Dan Friedman -- On Overcoming Modernism / Lorraine Wild -- On White Space: When Less is More / Keith Robertson -- Kicking Up a Little Dust / Michael Dooley -- Starting from Zero / Keith Robertson -- Pictures, Phonemes, and Typography / Marc Treib -- Type and Deconstruction in the Digital Era / Rick Poynor -- Logos, Flags, and Escutcheons / Paul Rand -- Reading Outside the Grid: Designers and Society / Frances Butler -- The Written Word: The Designer as Executor, Agent, and Provocateur / William Drenttel -- I Like the Vernacular ... Not / Jeffery Keedy -- Low and High: Design in Everyday Life / Ellen Lupton -- Legible? / Gerard Unger -- A Brave New World: Understanding Deconstruction / Chuck Byrne and Martha Witte -- Typefaces are Rich with the Gesture and Spirit of Their Own Era / Michael Rock -- Typeface Designs and Text / Jonathan Barnbrook -- The (Layered) Vision Thing / Mike Mills -- Neomania: Feeding the Monster / Anne Burdick -- Secondhand Culture / Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl -- Since When Did USA Today Become the National Design Ideal? / Michael Rock -- On Typishness: This is My Theory. My Theory is Wrong / Karrie Jacobs -- The Curse of the New / Dugald Stermer -- Cult of the Ugly / Steven Heller -- The Obscene Typography Machine / Philip B. Meggs -- Meaning / John J. Rheinfrank and Katherine A. Welker -- The Urge to Make Things / Leo Lionni -- Drawing and Design: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Again / James McMullan -- Dance & Play in Visual Design / Frances Butler -- Propaganda and Persuasion / Dugald Stermer -- Guerrilla Graphics / Steven Heller -- Disposability, Graphic Design, Style, and Waste / Karrie Jacobs -- Can Design Be Socially Responsible? / Michael Rock -- Red, White, and Bland / Nicholas Backlund -- The Boat / Paula Scher -- I Want to Sex You Up: Fabien Baron and the Pursuit of the Sexy / Michael Rock -- Flogging Underwear: The New Raunchiness of American Advertising / Andrew Sullivan -- Why Designers Can't Think / Michael Bierut -- A Clockwork Magenta and Orange / D.L. Odge -- Two Myths about Design Education / Gordon Salchow -- Back to Show and Tell / Paula Scher -- Graphic Design Education: Struggling through Those Awkward Teenage Years / D.K. Holland.
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Book Limited Loan Book Limited Loan Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General NC 997 BIE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0008582
Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General NC 997 BIE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 0005021

This volume lacks numeric designation but constitutes 1 ; numeric designation added beginning with 2, published in 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Steven Heller -- A Natural History of Typography / J. Abbott Miller and Ellen Lupton -- Good History/Bad History / Tibor Kalman, J. Abbott Miller and Karrie Jacobs -- The Time Machine / Steven Heller -- Morality and Myth: The Bauhaus Reassessed / Dietmar R. Winlker -- Some Thoughts on Modernism, Past, Present, and Future / Milton Glaser, Ivan Chermayeff and Rudolf deHarak -- Rethinking Modernism, Revising Functionalism / Katherine McCoy -- Long Live Modernism! / Massimo Vignelli -- Life, Style, and Advocacy / Dan Friedman -- On Overcoming Modernism / Lorraine Wild -- On White Space: When Less is More / Keith Robertson -- Kicking Up a Little Dust / Michael Dooley -- Starting from Zero / Keith Robertson -- Pictures, Phonemes, and Typography / Marc Treib -- Type and Deconstruction in the Digital Era / Rick Poynor -- Logos, Flags, and Escutcheons / Paul Rand -- Reading Outside the Grid: Designers and Society / Frances Butler -- The Written Word: The Designer as Executor, Agent, and Provocateur / William Drenttel -- I Like the Vernacular ... Not / Jeffery Keedy -- Low and High: Design in Everyday Life / Ellen Lupton -- Legible? / Gerard Unger -- A Brave New World: Understanding Deconstruction / Chuck Byrne and Martha Witte -- Typefaces are Rich with the Gesture and Spirit of Their Own Era / Michael Rock -- Typeface Designs and Text / Jonathan Barnbrook -- The (Layered) Vision Thing / Mike Mills -- Neomania: Feeding the Monster / Anne Burdick -- Secondhand Culture / Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl -- Since When Did USA Today Become the National Design Ideal? / Michael Rock -- On Typishness: This is My Theory. My Theory is Wrong / Karrie Jacobs -- The Curse of the New / Dugald Stermer -- Cult of the Ugly / Steven Heller -- The Obscene Typography Machine / Philip B. Meggs -- Meaning / John J. Rheinfrank and Katherine A. Welker -- The Urge to Make Things / Leo Lionni -- Drawing and Design: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Again / James McMullan -- Dance & Play in Visual Design / Frances Butler -- Propaganda and Persuasion / Dugald Stermer -- Guerrilla Graphics / Steven Heller -- Disposability, Graphic Design, Style, and Waste / Karrie Jacobs -- Can Design Be Socially Responsible? / Michael Rock -- Red, White, and Bland / Nicholas Backlund -- The Boat / Paula Scher -- I Want to Sex You Up: Fabien Baron and the Pursuit of the Sexy / Michael Rock -- Flogging Underwear: The New Raunchiness of American Advertising / Andrew Sullivan -- Why Designers Can't Think / Michael Bierut -- A Clockwork Magenta and Orange / D.L. Odge -- Two Myths about Design Education / Gordon Salchow -- Back to Show and Tell / Paula Scher -- Graphic Design Education: Struggling through Those Awkward Teenage Years / D.K. Holland.

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